Allen Interactions' ZebraZapps Teams Up with ETA hand2mind to Help Produce New Digital Classroom Lessons that Meet Common Core State Standards Requirements

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Innovative digital manipulatives revealed, as a part of the new ETA hand2mind Common Core Fractions, solution for teachers required to incorporate a stronger focus on fractions into current math curriculum.

ZebraZapps and ETA Hand2Mind Teaching Aids

Our Allen Interactions and ZebraZapps team found it both fun and rewarding to work with ETA hand2mind to create meaningful, memorable, and motivational learning material fit for our children and our future.

The new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) pose a challenge to many teachers who need to develop strategies for creatively teaching the new approaches to learning in a limited amount of time. The new lessons, jointly produced by ZebraZapps and ETA hand2mind, make it easier for educators to teach fractions and also easier for students to learn them.

“There is no set path to the goal, and consequently the need for innovation and collaboration within the education community has never been greater,” states Dennis Tarwood, Technology Product Development Manager, ETA hand2mind. “That’s why we’ve partnered with ZebraZapps to develop these state-of-the-art digital support applications.”

The applications, known as Digital Classroom Lessons for Hands-On Standards, Common Core Fractions, are unique interactive classroom teaching aids that augment the physical manipulatives and comprehensive teacher guides for teaching new fractions standards.

“We have successfully provided learning solutions and tools for the world’s leading business organizations for more than 20 years,” said Scott Colehour, Co-Founder and Solutions Architect at Allen Interactions. “Our Allen Interactions and ZebraZapps team found it both fun and rewarding to work with ETA hand2mind to create meaningful, memorable, and motivational learning material fit for our children and our future.”

The new Common Core Fractions solution from ETA hand2mind will be introduced this week at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics annual meeting in Denver, Colorado. To find out more, please visit hand2mind.com/fractions.

About ETA hand2mind
The mission of ETA hand2mind is to support P–12 educators and partners in the quest to inspire learning and champion learning by doing with research-based, proven hands-on solutions. The Vernon Hills, Ill.-based company's solutions in mathematics, science, and literacy are unique in the marketplace, providing instructional curriculum, custom-kit solutions for content providers, manipulatives, interactive digital applications, and teacher coaching and development. For more information, visit hand2mind.com.

About Allen Interactions Inc.
Allen Interactions is an internationally acclaimed company focused on improving performance through powerful learning experiences. For 20 years, Allen Interactions has designed and developed custom e-learning and blended learning solutions to address the widely-varied performance goals of the world’s leading organizations. With a wealth of experience and a track record of success in instructional design, technology, creativity, process, and project management, Allen Interactions consistently achieves positive business impact. For more information, visit alleninteractions.com.

In 2009, the company established Allen Learning Technologies to create a revolutionary, cloud-based authoring and publishing system ZebraZapps, which allows developers and non-programmers to create rich interactive media applications easily and quickly, as well as share, publish, and sell reusable learning objects or entire applications. For more information, visit zebrazapps.com.
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